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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God’s making it in reality.
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Description God Need Reality See Word
Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Animal Happiness One Liner Philosophy Wisdom
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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Face Family Man Period True
I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
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Autumn Day Endurance Home Light Myself Shine Stay Sun Time
Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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God Meaning Talk Voice
The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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Philosophy Reflection River Spiritual Tree World
All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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Affection Battle Brave Life Man Physical
Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Bond Fall Family Relationship Rise
Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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Born Creation Death Heart Love Radiance Shine Sun World
What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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Darkness Heart Oneself
Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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Cold Eyes Man Passion Quick
Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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Experience People Time
What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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Fashion Happiness Love Rest
Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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Appearance Friendship Man Recognition Trust
It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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Ability Greatness Happiness Man Moral
There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.
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Dedication Greatness Ideas Man Memories Monument Need Oneself Recognition Worth
I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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Agony Heart Illusion Laughter Myself Pain Reality
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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Best Friendship Intimate Nature Worst
The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
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Cold Forget Man Memories Monument Oneself Sad
A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
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Body Spiritual Symptom
At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
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Appointment Care Eyes Job Occupation Ordinary People Time
Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Build Life One Liner
The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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Calm Distance Right True View
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Deep Fly One Liner Shadow Time
Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
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Book Combination Evil Goodness Hands Innocence Power Stand Word
Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Accuracy Brother Honesty
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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Fools Greatness Hero Obstacle

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